Hearing a noise below, Quilt called out, supposing it occasioned by the Jew.

Jack hastily retreated, and taking the first means of concealment that occurred to him, descended the cellar steps.
Quilt, meanwhile, came down, examined the door, and finding it unfastened, locked it with a bitter imprecation on his brother-janizary's carelessness.
This done, he followed the course which Jack had just taken.

As he crossed the cellar, he passed so near to Jack who had concealed himself behind a piece of furniture that he almost touched him.

It was Jack's intention to have knocked him down with the iron bar; but he was so struck with the janizary's looks, that he determined to spare him till he had ascertained his purpose.

With this view, he suffered him to pass on.
Quilt's manner, indeed, was that of a man endeavouring to muster up sufficient resolution for the commission of some desperate crime.